It’s an exciting time to be in the legal tech or e-discovery service provider sector in Brazil – or is it? With uncertainty still clouding the future of the country’s General Data Privacy Law (LGPD), it may be a long while until the effects on the developing legal tech marketplace begin to crystalise.

As of now, the LGDP is set to go into effect in August 2020 and is expected to impact businesses in many of the same ways that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation did when it was launched last May.